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<\/a><\/div>\n There are exceptions and unusual viewpoints. I know someone who doubts Paul wrote Galatians. If he had been there, the chart would have an outlier. But gathering and collating views compensates for such things, and even when scholars with unusual views are present, one can still get a clear sense of whether there is a consensus, and if so, what it is.<\/p>\n
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Dan Wilkinson was not entirely happy with just the numbers provided in Paul Foster’s article, from which I shared some statistics in a previous post. So he made this: \u00a0 There are exceptions and unusual viewpoints. I know someone who doubts Paul wrote Galatians. If he had been there, the chart would have an outlier. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[901,906,1276,2145,3107,6506,8815,8823,10870,11848],"class_list":["post-16279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-and-his-letters","tag-author","tag-authorship","tag-bntc","tag-consensus","tag-epistles","tag-letters","tag-paul","tag-paul-foster","tag-scholars","tag-statistics"],"yoast_head":"\n
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